Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have r...

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the...

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Being is the great explainer.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under cer...

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'