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

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.

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.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

I want to be remembered as a passionate professional and compassionate human being.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

You have the Best Of Me.

Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.