You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist the great artist knows how difficult it is.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

When a great many people are unable to find work unemployment results.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone I want something that turns me on inside.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Her angel's face As the great eye of heaven shined bright And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Any great warrior is also a scholar and a poet and an artist.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Eventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

It's a great country where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.