One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation we must not merely talk we must act big.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope Self.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.

It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being to risk his body to risk his life in a great cause.

An index is a great leveller.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

If you don't know how great this country is I know someone who does Russia.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary great minds with the ordinary.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

We know but a few men a great many coats and breeches.

I always entertain great hopes.