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

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

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance (Oscar Wilde)

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. (Pablo Picasso)

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

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)