"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on commitment
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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."

Miller, Henry on madness
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on insanity
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."

Dryden, John on genius
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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."

Cioran, E. M. on vitality
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on madness
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

Clemenceau, Georges on action