A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

I like the feeling of feeling my feelings.

When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.