Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Ambrose Bierce

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Arthur Miller

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Cesare Pavese

The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.

Mark Twain

It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.

Yiddish Proverb

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Phil McGraw

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Oscar Wilde

I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

Thomas Jefferson

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

William S. Burroughs

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Juliette Gordon Low

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

George Eliot

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut