“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” — Robin Williams

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.” — Cormac McCarthy

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.” — William Shakespeare

“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.” — W. C. Fields

“Read between the lines. Then meet me in the silence if you can.” — May Sarton

“The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.” — Madame de Stael

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.” — Wole Soyinka

“The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.” — E. B. White

“The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.” — Eric Sevareid

“Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway.” — Steve McQueen

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — Dalai Lama

“Walk on air against your better judgement.” — Seamus Heaney

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.” — Franz Kafka

“Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.” — Ulysses S. Grant

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” — Ernest Hemingway

“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” — Jack Lemmon

“Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.” — Michel Foucault

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, “Are we being good ancestors?” — Jonas Salk

“Pretending is a very valuable life skill.” — Meryl Streep

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley