Lincoln Steffens

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.