Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. Read Summary
We are all born mad. Some remain so. Read Summary
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. Read Summary
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. Read Summary
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Read Summary
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people. Read Summary
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Read Summary
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.' Read Summary
The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles. Read Summary
Humor is reason gone mad. Read Summary
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Read Summary
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Read Summary
I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time. Read Summary
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Read Summary
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. Read Summary
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Read Summary
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Read Summary
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. Read Summary
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. Read Summary
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method. Read Summary