Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.

Henry David Thoreau

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

Frank McCourt

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

Arsenio Hall

Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem.

Ronald Reagan

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Sandy Wilson

He becomes strenuous, energetic, and perhaps eager for what must after all be regarded as success, and at last he fights for a verdict rather than for the truth.

Anthony Trollope

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

Henry Clay

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Ed Markey

Biography is a higher gossip.

Robert Winder