My mother use to say she would rather be dead than not eat the foods she liked. At eighty-six she met with death but she enjoyed every breath

I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me

My definition for GOD that works for me is “Pure Energy, Supreme Consciousness.” The highest resolution of pure energy we use is the sensation we call “love.

Love” is only a one syllable word but it’s the most powerful one mankind’s ever heard.

Every day in life we’re told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we’re all the same when we remove our hat.

99 % of the reason a person doesn't do something are 100% correct

I heard this when I was in the Air Force: “There’s never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.

When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design.

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I’d be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.

The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you’ll find.

Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.