Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose.

Oscar Wilde

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Albert Einstein

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

F. Paul Facult

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

Ina Garten

Make good habits and they will make you.

Parks Cousins

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Ed Foreman

There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.

Albert Camus

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Salma Hayek

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Antony Sher

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

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