The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Whatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Unless you choose to do great things with it it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few but we can't have both.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.