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
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. Jodie Foster
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Marcel Proust
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. John Wooden
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. Bill Gates
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. Robert Benchley
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
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. Rabindranath Tagore
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. Jan Peter Balkenende
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
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Victor Hugo