A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

He who is brave is free.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Good taste is not the birthright of snobs, but a gift from God sometimes found in the unlikeliest of people".

Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.

Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.