These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by Lani Brown.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.