"Don't accept my promises. I'll do anything to get off the hook. But the nature of my illness prevents me from keeping my promises, even though I mean them at the time...don't believe everything I tell you; it may be a lie. Denial of reality is a symptom of my illness. Moreover, I'm likely to lose respect for those I fool too easily. Don't let me take advantage of you or exploit you in any way. Love cannot exist long without the dimension of justice."
"I can try to protect my children, to help and guide them, and I can love them, but I cannot save them."
"If only life were easier. It isn't--nor is that my goal any longer. Once I desperately wanted things to be simpler, but my worldview was broken...I learned another lesson: that I can accept...a world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful."
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