The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

There is no greater glory than love nor any great punishment than jealously.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept it graciously.

Mr. Chairman delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat which is the combat of life and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I fell in love with theater there and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.