History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

My mom makes this amazing little snack that, to this day, I still think about. It's pita bread wrapped with melted butter, feta cheese, and cucumbers. That, to me, is still heaven. It's my childhood.

Results is all that separates one company from another.

If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.

The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.

Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?