It's a great country where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance his narcissism and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated enriched heart.

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

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object and pursue it for life.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away the people will attack the great and after the great they will fall upon the rich.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

The smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole of whom they have a persistent intuition.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching childlike and of the race of giants.

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Endurance is the crowning quality And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance your prayers your sacrifice and he most humbly asks this of you.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

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.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.

I was an OK boxer I wasn't great I was OK but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday Wednesday and Friday usually Saturday afternoons too with a whole bunch of mates and training very very hard for about two-and-half hours.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat obedient loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.