“Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.”

There are only four kinds of people in the world – those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.

Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

Don’t worry about polls, but if you do, don’t admit it.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.

Without volunteers, we’d be a nation without a soul.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It’s so sad. We know what to do. We just don’t do it.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

I can feel hope beginning to sprout from all parts of me that were once punctured.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.

Every ending is a beginning, and thus beginning shall bring hope.