The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

Marcus V. Pollio

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

W. Somerset Maugham

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

J. K. Rowling

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Wallace Stevens

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them

Abraham Lincoln

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Samuel Johnson

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

Charles M. Schwab

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

Thomas Carlyle

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Dwight D Eisenhower

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

LeVar Burton