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Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.