Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.