We are a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we are all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that is a marvelous thing.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

I have made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

The past is a great place and I do not want to erase it or to regret it, but I do not want to be its prisoner either.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you do not know how to read, you do not know how to decide. That is the great thing about our country - we are a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can not find.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.