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 don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're 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't 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.