There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.