Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven it is the beating of a loving heart.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid so yes I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience how can it be that on a Monday morning you are useless?

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money compliments or publicity.

I've never preached one sermon on money on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Mind you I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.