There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings I now with a high sense of gratitude presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty the Creator and Preserver.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

A great empire like a great cake is most easily diminished at the edges.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

I call upon the scientific community in our country those who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence imagination and wonder.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful it does a great deal of harm.

Material possessions winning scores and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.