Great Quotes

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I bordered on great in dodge ball.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

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.

I once wore a maroon leather dress with sleeves, which looked fabulous in real life but didn't look great on TV. It was shiny, and it looked like something Pinky Tuscadero would wear.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.