“…the madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings…”

“And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.”

“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

“The highest service demands the greatest sacrifice, but it secures the fullest blessing and the greatest fruitfulness.”

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

“In writing a history of madness, Foucault has attempted-and this is the greatest merit, but also the very infeasibility of his book0to write a history of madness itself. Itself. Of madness itself. That is by letting madness speak for itself.”

“We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.”

“All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.”

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”