Unless you choose to do great things with it it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few but we can't have both.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.