Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Limbaugh can rightly be said to be the greatest populist expositor of conservatism in America since Reagan, and the link between the Reagan generation and the so-called Rush Babies.
My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.
I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.
