It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. (G. B. Burgin)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. (Yogi Berra)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.(Napoleon Bonaparte)

Black holes are where God divided by zero. (Steven Wright)

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. (George Bernard Shaw)

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. (Salvador Dali)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.(Napoleon Bonaparte)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plato)