There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.