My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.

Their leafy whispers delighted her, and she promised her confidentiality by gently touching the trunks of both trees. They had held her secrets close to their hearts, she could do no less.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.

I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

Every woman needs to think about her career above everything. And I'll say it again...Kate [Siegel] is unemployed.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.