The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter he can only be a builder.

No human being however great or powerful was ever so free as a fish.

I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Idle people are often bored and bored people unless they sleep a lot are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Don't get involved in partial problems but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem even if this view is still not a clear one.

Police and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

The philosopher has never killed any priests whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great big normal life and you're like 'What's wrong with me?'

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

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.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.