Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

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?

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it under any circumstances lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

When you sing with a group of people you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy the great social virtue.

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

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels in the deepest sense about what is being photographed.

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.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist he is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts nor is he a tactician nor is he a general nor is he a soldier. Other than that he's a great military man I want you to know that.

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.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being to risk his body to risk his life in a great cause.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Being is the great explainer.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

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.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Greatness lies not in being strong but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be the deeper must be its foundation.

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.