One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

Hope is only the love of life.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.

Everyone else has a work party, 'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

If someone truly loves you, they won't try to change you or take away your freedom to choose.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day!

There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!

I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.