"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."

“Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.”

“The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.”

“Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.”

“The thing that makes makeup or clothing or fashion beautiful is the fact that the person wearing them loves themselves and loves being able to kind of use them as artistic tools. And so if I was to give one piece of advice, it would be to find beauty in your core first before you go out into the world and find it in other ways.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

“Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.”

Source : Mary Butts (1992). “The Taverner novels”, McPherson

“If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.”

“I had one idea that never changed in my mind—that you should use your wealth to help people.”

Source : "The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune". Book by Conor O'Clery, September 23, 2007.

“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

Source : Linux kernel mailing list message, lkml.org. August 25, 2000.