Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Aristotle

To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

Rita Rudner

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

John Steinbeck

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Jeff Goodell

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Robert Benchley

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

Vijay Mallya

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Wayne Dyer

The love of great wealth commands you, Bring me your soul as a sacrifice, and people do so.

Leo Tolstoy

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R

Steve Jobs

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Barbara Tuchman

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Huxley

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson