The smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole of whom they have a persistent intuition.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents period not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

However glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

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

Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky the great ocean and the highest peak empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

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.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

And what he greatly thought he nobly dared.

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

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind but great actions speak to all mankind.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.