What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

John Squire

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

Bob Hawke

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Roger McGough

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22

Bible

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

George Washington Carver

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Samuel Johnson

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Aleksandr Pushkin