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's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't 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.