Ability is nothing without opportunity.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

- Steven Moffat

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

- John D. Rockefeller

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

- Winston Churchill

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

- Paulo Coelho

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

- Arthur C. Clarke

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

- Ernest Hemingway

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

- Julius Caesar

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

- George W. Bush

I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandths, my line will not end.

- Qin Shi Huang

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

- Herman Melville

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou