When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.