When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

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.

Your life is defined by how you spend your time and what you choose to do daily, so a life of passion is not an act but a habit.

The only real estate I will ever truly own is the space inside my head and heart. And what I build there is up to me.

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

Time-Use it or lose it. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

You know you're ugly when you go to the proctologist and he sticks his finger in your mouth.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.