“Study the nature around you, but also within you.”

“The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.”

“Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.”

“People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.”

“It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.”

“I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.”

“I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time o...”

“I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which given that Im emerging from dark times can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and wi...”

“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a ...”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”