Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

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.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Life should be great rather than long.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Let us develop the resources of our land call forth its powers build up its institutions promote all its great interests and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.