My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.