All great achievements require time.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends, and I've always built great relationships and been friendly with people. I always think what you do to others will come to you, so that's how I treat people.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don't deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.

I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.