I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.

Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.

I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.

It’s okay to not be okay – it means that your mind is trying to heal itself.

True suffering is being trapped in your own head.

There is a point where courage becomes a symptom of mental illness.

It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.

Hope, hope, hope. It has to be there. Rob the person of hope, and there won’t be any recovery.

Your illness does not define you. Your strength and courage do.

I’m struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

To think too much is a disease.

Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

There are no military solutions – dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.