A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that so really I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say then always my body comes first.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway three-quarters nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something I go all the way.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void whose world will give us shelter?

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

In America the race goes to the loud the solemn the hustler. If you think you're a great writer you must say that you are.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

A am a great friend of public amusements they keep people from vice.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.