"Wisdom principle 23 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 35."

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

"It is a steadfast truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them."

"I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient."

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."

"We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society."