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.

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

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.

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?

...remember after every autumn, the flora senses the rapturous kiss of cheerful spring.(Book-Love Vs Destiny)

I don't need anybody to handle my problems, only I am capable of solving them my self.

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.

Once you are ready to truly devote your days and times to what your soul came here to do, you will find your life unimaginably enriched.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.