One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

Theories without data are like daydreams.

Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.

You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet.

Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.

Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.

So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

...the dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge.

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

For my sake, the entire world was created.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.