We all move uneasily within our restraints.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk.

Hope is my guideline, happiness is my purpose, and love is my life’s strength and power.

I hadn’t even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

If I don’t do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.