Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete's been doing by how her body is carved.

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

Culture makes all men gentle.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

While at first it seemed like a depressing realization, I soon realized that makeup is powerful - it's every woman's secret weapon.

Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.