There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

To achieve great things two things are needed a plan and not quite enough time.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible.

I've made some great mistakes in my life but you know they were honest mistakes.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

We're a diverse society and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings that we can all get along that we can all be together and I think that's a marvelous thing.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat the subjection of women through hunger the atrophy of the child by darkness.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man let us have the great thing.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city or a new love affair.