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.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

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.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find but symmetrical men never.

People with great gifts are easy to find but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is 'What does a woman want?'

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test which I would not have been able to do.