Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

General George Patton

Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or smoot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.

Thomas Carlyle

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Jean Rostand

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Doug Larson

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

Jami Gertz

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

Watkin Tudor Jones

I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

Kristin Davis

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

George Bernard Shaw

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Mark Twain