Theories without data are like daydreams.

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet.

Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.

Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.

Do you feel like your action plans are stronger to than your capability? Just take a moment a draw a plan of how to deal with the difficult task with a single bite at each time. Go slow, but sure!

(Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?" Malory: "Oh, sweet heavens!")

Giving someone a piece of your soul is better than giving a piece of your heart. Because souls are eternal.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.