One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

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.

Carroll Quigley

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Fitzhugh Dodson

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Francis Thompson

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Julius Caesar

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.

Paulo Coelho

The people rate strength before everything.

Johann von Goethe

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

Marcus Aurelius

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Congress

Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary,

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Doris Kearns Goodwin