If there is not the war you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace no one would have known his name.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Where there is great love there are always wishes.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation we must not merely talk we must act big.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope Self.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.

It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?