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.

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.

Memory demands an image.

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

Ive been in New York City now for 22 years.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.

Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.