Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

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.

People who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say little.

Great loves too must be endured.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

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

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels in the deepest sense about what is being photographed.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible.