The '20s ended in an era of extravagance sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash but then the country picked itself up again and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think Hey isn't it great just being?

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

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

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.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

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.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

There may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord but few of us are willing to do little things.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers pillow fights and things but I was used to always cry from loneliness.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other that is which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.