Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls did not have that experience.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.