"The measure of mental health is the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.”

“Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”

“If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.”

“My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.”

“Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.”

“This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

“I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.”