A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

Roger Scruton

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

April Winchell

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

Jane Austen

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

Donald Trump

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Charles M. Schwab

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

Tim Bishop

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Sir Arthur Eddington, "In the Na

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nevell Bovee

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Jackie Robinson

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld