Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above and that all people may be one people.
To me acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
By and large mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Until you're ready to look foolish you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Life should be great rather than long.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
Let us develop the resources of our land call forth its powers build up its institutions promote all its great interests and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
For there is no defense for a man who in the excess of his wealth has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
If I had my way if I was lucky enough if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning but the kids would have to go to church.