You are that vast thing that you see far far off with great telescopes.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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

I always entertain great hopes.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough, for all life is a dream and dreams themselves are only dreams.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

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

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.