At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

Work is an instrument through which you carry out your life mandate

Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.

Reputation is made in a moment

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are religious. They just don't like the form it takes.

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.