“To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.”

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.

It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.

I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.

However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.

To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

It’s simple arithmetic: “Your income can grow only to the extent you do.”

That is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.