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.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.

Cassandra Clare

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

David Mitchell

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joseph Joubert

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Gustave Flaubert

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

O yellow eye,let me be sick with your heat,let me be feverish and frowning.

Anne Sexton

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.

Norm Coleman

Accessible design is good design.

Steve Ballmer