For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

George Santayana

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

Terry Pratchett

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.

Ezra Pound

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

Walter Bagehot

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Donald Rumsfeld

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

Raoul Vaneigem

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Jeff Bridges

My home has always been show business.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard