Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't 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.
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.
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.