A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

A true friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be going down

Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends.

Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.

Don’t take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.

Emotions, moods, and impulses, ebb and flow with the tide of my life. Tidal waves, at times, in a bipolar mind.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

It’s about the determination to keep walking forward.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds