Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

[on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.