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If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.