Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex the ugly ones included.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views not even kindness.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Great people talk about ideas average people talk about things and small people talk about wine.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

I was on the yearbook staff so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars he or she should learn something about fieldwork something about bibliography something about how to carry out library research and something about how to publish that research.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so one could blame the companies but really economically they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Everybody wants you to do good things but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry have children and go to their football games.

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So slam me for saying so but I'm really proud of the NHS.

Are we still a country that takes risks that innovates that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.