Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

Aron Ralston

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

Rafer Johnson

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

Kristin Chenoweth

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

James Buchanan

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

Kirsten Dunst

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits

Napoleon Hill

I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing

The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.

Hubert Humphrey

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Plautus