A system cannot excel beyond that of its lowest common denominator.

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.

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