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 sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

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

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

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.

All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.