The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The planter the farmer the mechanic and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life no matter what else there is it's not enough.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

No great thing is created suddenly.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question that they do care deeply about justice and they they have open minds.

See everything overlook a great deal correct a little.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

To achieve great things two things are needed a plan and not quite enough time.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

We're a diverse society and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings that we can all get along that we can all be together and I think that's a marvelous thing.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man let us have the great thing.

Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.