I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Plutarch

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Samuel Johnson

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.

Florence King

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Hubert Humphrey

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Roger Bannister

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Colonel Harland Sanders

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.

Herbert Spencer

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Barbara Sher

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Voltaire

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

Eva Herzigova

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

Whitney Otto