It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given

customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Steve Jobs

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
Lee H. Hamilton

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
Ovid

Live your life and forget your age.
Jean Paul

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman