Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

John Gay

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Henry Ford

You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it too, and that’s what scares you the most

Sarah J. Maas

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Steven Brust

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Alice Sebold

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

Lucas Grabeel

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

Roone Arledge

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

Stephanie Laurens

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

Will McDonough

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

Bertrand Russell

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Thomas Babington Macaulay