We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.

We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all.

This generation is earnestly waiting for you, for a change

Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

Beggar that I am I am even poor in thanks.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea.

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Laughter has no foreign accent.