In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

The point is there is no point in life! Live the Moment!

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.

I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'