High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. Christopher Hitchens
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. Mencius
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken. P. J. O'Rourke
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. Milan Kundera
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources. P. J. O'Rourke
Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great! Colin Powell
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. Sam Snead
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. Lord Byron
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. Anna Quindlen
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. Cher
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship. Billy Corgan
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. James Dean
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people. Chief Joseph
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience. Al Pacino
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. Samuel Johnson
I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82. Dave Brubeck
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. Samuel Johnson
Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets. Larry Hagman
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. Samuel Johnson