I never trust people who speak with declaratives such as "always" or "never" because there are always exceptions.

Rome may not have been built in a day but Pompeii was destroyed in one.

Stripped from context, once a good quote lands in a reader's hands it has great freedom.

Death will be my only peace, many of us await it with a candle in the window.

Genius appears in those who are able to make connections between disparate subjects and develop something new for the world.

In conversation the end results depend not on what one says but on what the other hears.