Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.

Edward Young

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Albert Einstein

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Plato

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard Milhous Nixon

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Dickens

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Barbara de Angelis

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Belva Davis

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

John Grisham

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

Donald Glover