Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Christina Westover

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

Jessica Cutler

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

Lance Bass

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Blaise Pascal

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Benjamin Franklin

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Gloria Steinem

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

Criss Jami

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Mike Krzyzewski

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

Mitch Daniels