As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

In its knowledges light, we must think and act not only for the moment but for our time. I am reminded of the great French Marshal Lyautey, who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for a hundred years. The Marshal replied, In that case, there is no time to lose, plant it this afternoon.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Carl Sandburg

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

Izabella Scorupco

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Confucius

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Sylvia Porter

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Vincent Van Gogh

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Robertson Davies

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Quentin Crisp

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Eddie Izzard

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Neil Gaiman

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Robert Sheckley