The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Lord Thomas Dewar

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Daniel Keyes

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Wayne Dyer

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.

Red Symons

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buc

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Leo Tolstoy