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People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

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.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.