Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.