The inner light is the true soul of a man.
Hard times are moments of reflection.
I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.
Great men don't strive for greatness, they simply do great works.
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.
Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching...
It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or none and are inclined to go along with the author's script almost without query. The Canadian practice is just what ...
All Renaissance drama, especially the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare, is profoundly concerned with shifting power relations within society. The individual was a new force in relation to the state. The threat of rebellion, of the overturning of esta...
Potential literature is what we might call language in the hands of a crafty reader, the way potential music is sound to a crafty listener. Reading, no matter what you're reading, presupposes a belief in the potential of the text - to speak to you, e...
The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost to the point of making us sick. Do you know a work of literature written in the last, say, fifteen years that you think...
Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find...
The main reason why serious historical studies of the Rosicrucian manifestos and their influence have hitherto been on the whole lacking is no doubt because the whole subject has been bedevilled by enthusiasts for secret societies. There is a vast li...
You are a great genius. Seek to fulfil it.
May God strengthen you for a great work.
Life's challenges are opportunities for personal growth.
