Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. 

~ Ray Bradbury, writer (1920-2012)

The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. 

~ Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)

The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. 

~ Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981) 

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. 

~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative. 

~ Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. 

~ Jane Austen, novelist (1775-1817)

The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity. 

~ Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. 

~ John Updike, writer (1932-2009)

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. 

~ Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975)

The church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. 

~ Eduardo Galeano, journalist and novelist (b. 1940)

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. 

~ Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. 

~ Harriet Lerner, psychologist (b. 1944

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. 

~ Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright (1732-1799)

When one guy sees an invisible man, he's a nut case; ten people see him, it's a cult; ten million people see him, it's a respected religion. 

~ Richard Jeni, comedian and actor (1957-2007)

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. 

~ Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. 

~ Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975)

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree and through that bad companionship must perish with it. 

~ Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)