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

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.

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.

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

Honor your joy today, whilst it replenishes and strengthens you - in the company of your Soul.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

I have some help on tweeting.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.