One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.