The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Ira Hayes

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Lao Tzu

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Douglas Everett

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Jim Davis

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

Ani DiFranco

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every single moment of your life you must choose from a number of alternatives. What you choose determines where you will end up.

Shall Sinha

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

Patricia Highsmith

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Louise Jameson

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Johann von Goethe

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Gertrude Stein

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller