Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

... patients seldom run amuck at mealtime.

... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable?

Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.