Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

I wasn't a Star Trek fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show.

Marina Sirtis

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Publilius Syrus

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Isaac Hanson

We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Robert Toombs

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Mario Balotelli

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

John Green

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

Jeff Goodell

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Adam Duritz

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

Terry Pratchett

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Don Knuth

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Sir Thomas Browne