Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

God’s love is unchangeable

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

We need a leader who won't be silent - as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been - as millions of Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East.

When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

They are all my favourites. All of them.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.