Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

One did not fully exist without the other.

Creativity is an inherently human trait that allowed us to dominate our environment and make our way to the top of the food chain.

Everything you mean to me, I can't put into words, because when you're as perfect as you, no amount of words will do.

The one who has found inner silence, stops pondering over the meaning of life and starts living it. That's the journey from "going with the flow" to "being the flow.

There's a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we're doin', but we got no mercy for 'em.

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich.

They are "sexcellent". That is a pun for you, you will find lots of puns on the internet! Also: blonde jokes.

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

I'm not out trying to prove anything. All I'm trying to do is go out there and help my team any way I can to win. I don't get caught up in the individual stats or the awards.