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

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

Oscar Wilde

Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Carl Sagan

The original Mickey Mouse cartoon was in Mouse, with Englishsubtitles.

Steven Wright

All men are born equally free.

Salmon P. Chase

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

Jinato Hu

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Kurt Vonnegut

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.

Malcolm Turnbull

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Charles Caleb Colton