A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

Negativity is never an option

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.