Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Yes, in all my research the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.

The Bible remained for me a book of books still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

I haven't had that one great love which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.