The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

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.

Your purpose lies where your passion, wisdom and gifts meet and complement each other.

Ever since meeting Charlie… his entire world was off it’s axis…

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

Our country deserves no less, because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge what you don't know.