High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.