Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. .

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.

A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne. -Dogen.

Smile.... it makes others wonder what you're thinking.

Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Possunt quia posse videntur They can because they seem to be able to

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? A dry jest, sir. Are you full of them? Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig." "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig." "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig, And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,