Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

A man who makes a mistake, can learn from it.A man that makes the same mistake again, has never made a mistake in the first place.

True worth is in being, not seeming

We need to make our faith our very own love story.

The ultimate secret to growth is finding something worth fighting for

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

I've always had a very broad taste in music.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.