I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.