A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Marriage is a great institution.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

There is no greater glory than love nor any great punishment than jealously.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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.

The harder the struggle the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it under any circumstances lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friends.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The sensitivity of men to small matters and their indifference to great ones indicates a strange inversion.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I do not want people to be very agreeable as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

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.

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.