No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there is a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

I do live like a rock star, but it is not as great as it sounds. It is a lot of traveling.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That is one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one being clever.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

All great peoples are conservative.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it is a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain Does not get fried.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.