These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.