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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we did not think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

If it was not hard, everyone would do it. It is the hard that makes it great.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Rugby is great. The players do not wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

God gave me a great body and it is my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.