From those to whom more is given, more is expected

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
Everything looks worse in black and white

                                    — Paul Simon
 

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.  Specialization is for insects.

                          — Robert Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love

Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.

                                   — Peter Safar

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

                              — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,

Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit

Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,

Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

                                 — Omar Khayyam

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance,

I hope you dance

            — from song made popular by Lee Ann Womack

When we're torn apart

Shattered and scarred

Love has the grace to save us

We're just two tarnished hearts,

But in each other's arms

We become saints and angels

       — from song written by Victoria Banks

Plagiarize,

Let no one else's work evade your eyes,

Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,

So don't shade your eyes,

But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...

Only be sure always to call it please research.

                               — Tom Lehrer

Sentence first--verdict afterwards.

        — the Queen, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

That which does not kill us makes us stronger

With great power comes great responsibility

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

                                                  — Sherlock Holmes

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

                                         — Albert Einstein

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Oh well, it hardly matters, in five-dimensional Plutonian steam hockey.

                                 — Douglas Hofstadter

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

                      — Francis Bacon

A maid that laughs is half taken.

Love is space and time made directly perceptible to the heart.

                                                     —Marcel Proust