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

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.

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

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

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.