Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.