The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
I believe most people are small dreamers because they dream about great things, however, they think those great things are going to come to them when they wait
The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.
The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.
You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name…Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness.
Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.
In simple words, whatever you were born to do, you were equipped to do it. You are a whole equipment for success!
You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions. I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair.
He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.
He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice.
It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.' 'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great.
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn’t get him anything other than a living.
Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men.
No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.
Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...
Let go of your disappointments, mistakes and failures. May you find complete healing, renewed spiritual strength and courage to begin again.