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.

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

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

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.