Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed passage with you?

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

I have a great deal of company in the house especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Being is the great explainer.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Where words are restrained the eyes often talk a great deal.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.

Some are made modest by great praise others insolent.

Great men unknown to their generation have their fame among the great who have preceded them and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten it turns into a gnawing worm.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth great return great satisfaction great reputation and great joy.

A great figure or physique is nice but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

Success has always been a great liar.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Forgive O Lord my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.