Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.

Challenges bring opportunity for growth.

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

The object of the superior man is truth.

I think I've got a funny face.

I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.

In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.