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.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I like very much to do movies.

John Malkovich

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Princess of Wales Diana

Our best thoughts come from others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Hume

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Mark Twain

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Larry Speakes

Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.

Patty Murray

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

St. Catherine of Genoa

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes