The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

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 a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

One man's faith is another man's delusion