Charles Krauthammer Quotes

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

I got tested to see what condition my brain is in. And it's not in real good shape.

I am probably a bit numb upstairs, which is sometimes a good thing.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

Forgiving is good for your health.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

I'm very lucky in that I still experience highs and lows. And I think those lows are important. But I am not totally paralyzed, and it keeps me from just complete state of paralysis - and emotionally and really kind of almost physically.

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.

Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.