Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him the importance of the presidency and the significance of his life all wrong.

The extreme limit of wisdom that's what the public calls madness.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living and the dead know it not.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly but music-everything is based on music. No I'll never stop my music.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Money is our madness our vast collective madness.

Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Marriage is this grand madness and I think if people knew that they would perhaps take it more seriously.