My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

To have great poets there must be great audiences.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense and great expense may be an essential part in true economy.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.