When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.

Hope is only the love of life.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.

Everyone else has a work party, 'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

Sometimes it’s just a matter of letting go and getting on with life.

It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same.

I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.