In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

Tiffini Johnson

Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the picturesque looseness of their carriage -- their deathless attachment to freedom -- their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean -- the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states -- the fierceness of their roused resentment -- their curiosity and welcome of novelty -- their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy -- their susceptibility to a slight -- the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors -- the fluency of their speech -- their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul -- their good temper and open-handedness -- the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him -- these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.

Walt Whitman

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Bill Parcells

The higher you go, the wider spreads the network of communication that will make or break you. It extends not only to more people below, but to new levels above. And it extends all around, to endless other departments and interests interacting with yours.

Donald Walton

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Robert Lanza

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

Mary Kay Blakely

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

Terry Pratchett

With our thoughts we make the world.

Gautama Buddha

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Connie Chung

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood.

Daniel Burnham

Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.

Marvin R. Weisbord