Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.

I seem to know a lot about myself, but can’t tell who I am.

When you are the answer that must remain hidden, then you have everything to be worried about when so much people are asking the same question.” - Sari

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.