The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

William Shakespeare

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Steven Bochco

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

William Shakespeare

Penn State is a leader in food science.

Don Sherwood

You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.

J.K. Rowling

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Charles Caleb Colton

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Alanis Morissette

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Buxton

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Thorstein Veblen

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

David Brainerd

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Richard Powers