We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.