To have great poets there must be great audiences.

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash but then the country picked itself up again and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think Hey isn't it great just being?

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

There is no greater glory than love nor any great punishment than jealously.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life no matter what else there is it's not enough.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.