The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.

I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

Except the human all are crying seeing my pain.

Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him.