Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

Hope is only the love of life.

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

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

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.

You can not rise above your understanding, yet our understanding largely stems from the quality and quantity of knowledge we have been privileged to acquire.

To look in the mirror and smile is a challenge for many people. Those who do so without the slightest scowl are indeed fortunate.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.

I love Ali MacGraw and her style - I'm into vintage '70s outfits at the moment.

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something