It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. – Sun Tzu
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. – Morihei Ueshiba
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. – Vincent Van Gogh
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power is the great aphrodisiac. – Henry A. Kissinger
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. – John Wooden
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness. – Michael Jackson
A great artist is a great man in a great child. – Victor Hugo
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. – Michael Jackson
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. – Coretta Scott King
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. – Mitt Romney
Man is only great when he acts from passion. – Benjamin Disraeli
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. – Bertrand Russell
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. – E. B. White
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. – Benjamin Disraeli
