The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

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.

Do the things you were sent here to do effectively.

Fortunes mean nothing without knowing the lives they forever changed.

Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

How did it get so late so soon?

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.