I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Coco Chanel

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Plato

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Leo Tolstoy

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

Theresa May

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Woodrow Wilson

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

Jeffrey Kluger

The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Jeanne Moreau

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

John Stuart Mill