Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
. . . he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. . . The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.
There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
I love the relationship that anyone has with music. . . because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. . . . It's the best part of us probably.