The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent persuasive and unrealistic.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth and the most serious occupation of manhood.

A son has no greater duty, no higher good, than serving his parents.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours which we love so much will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

The greatest friend of truth is Time her greatest enemy is Prejudice and her constant companion is Humility.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

By imposing too great a responsibility or rather all responsibility on yourself you crush yourself.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy and great things in that which is small.

Let the day dawn for you and others with thought of the Almighty the Compassionate and the Omnipresent self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and others? This will give you health and happiness.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking innovative risk-taking God- loving family-oriented American people.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

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

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man, his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation plan carefully before making a move and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Silence is a source of great strength.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Well your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

from a business perspective it's great for the NBA... Notoriety sells.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away the people will attack the great and after the great they will fall upon the rich.

You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The great American novel has not only already been written it has already been rejected.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Zoilus why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone and thus burying your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs the weight is too great for fingers

Georgia was a great race last year and very tough in terms of its route ... I hope to defend there, although I think it will be tougher this year.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number add it to this number put the result there perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of let's say 1 000 000 per second. At 1 000 000 per second the results appear to be magic.

I think it's great. You know, just putting the past behind us, just move on. We had three great years together. I think it was important for the fans to see. It was good for us to be able to put this behind us and move on.

I learned a good deal about economics and about America from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

I absolutely hate it. I just hate it. I don't want to hear any comparisons between me and him. Enough is enough. He had a brilliant career obviously one of the greatest careers ever if not the greatest and I'm here playing with my team and we're trying to do great things. Just let the past be the past. Just embrace what I'm doing. Stop trying to compare it to what he did. Just enjoy what's going on now.

I was so frustrated with our last loss I said I'll fix it. Tonight I just wanted to attack and send a message. The reason I scored 62 points was because I wanted to win so bad. I just felt that I could continually attack these guys. It's a great feeling that I could do it here in front of our fans and give them an early Christmas present.

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.