I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Scott Elledge

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Neil Gaiman

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Lord Acton

Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.

Chris O'Donnell

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Friedrich von Schiller

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is the beginning of beauty.

Marcel Proust

How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

W. H. Auden

Now, very few are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Robertson Davies

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

Iain Duncan Smith

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

Terry Pratchett

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

U.S. vs Cruikshan