We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?

I trust all joy

No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill.

What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.