Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.