I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.

When I was 20 I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young you want everything to happen now. As you mature you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

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 in a way I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean you can always do it later.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like why they said all the strange things they did.

A weak mind is like a microscope which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

The great secret of doctors known only to their wives but still hidden from the public is that most things get better by themselves most things in fact are better in the morning.

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.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

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

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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.

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.

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.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question that they do care deeply about justice and they they have open minds.

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.

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.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

To achieve great things two things are needed a plan and not quite enough time.