The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

Carly Fiorina

It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

Thomas Troward

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence.

Orson Welles

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Robert Cecil

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.

Lea Michele

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Robert Orben

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor