If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.

Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.

I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

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

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together - and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika.

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

All the makeup in the world won't make a difference without great skincare.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.

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

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.