If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

Hope is only the love of life.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.

Everyone else has a work party, 'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

Life is miraculous and love is the miracle.

There are many men but rare fathers

Misery is the outcome of one's continuous negative evaluations of one's life.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.