The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. – Honore de Balzac
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. – Meryl Streep
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. – Honore de Balzac
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. – Anna Letitia Barbauld
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. – Princess Diana
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. – John Ruskin
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. – Emma Goldman
A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort. – John Ruskin
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. – Frank Lloyd Wright
The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. – Condoleezza Rice
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. – Steven Seagal
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. – John W. Gardner
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Joseph Addison
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. – H. G. Wells
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. – Calvin Coolidge
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood. – Norman Cousins
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. – Samuel Johnson
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration. – James Lane Allen
