Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life.

A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life.

Randy Orton is dangerous and that man is delusional!

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

I am very much in favor of tax cuts.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

[People] don't know the talent and I want to show them.