"If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?"
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)

"There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality."
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)

"the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life."
— Kay Redfield Jamison

"But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so."
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)

"We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. "
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
— Albert Einstein

"Never memorize something that you can look up."
— Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
— Albert Einstein

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
— Albert Einstein

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."
— Albert Einstein

"if a cluttered desk is that of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?"
— Albert Einstein

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."
— Albert Einstein

"You never fail until you stop trying."
— Albert Einstein

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
— Albert Einstein

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
— Albert Einstein

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
— Albert Einstein

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? "
— Albert Einstein

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
— Albert Einstein

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
— Albert Einstein

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
— Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."
— Thomas Jefferson

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. "
— Thomas Jefferson

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. "
— Thomas Jefferson

"I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
— Thomas Jefferson

"A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!"
— Thomas Jefferson

"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive."
— Thomas Jefferson

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
— Thomas Jefferson

"A room without books is like a life without meaning"
— Thomas Jefferson

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other."
— Thomas Jefferson

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent they conquered."
— Thomas Jefferson