The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation and then fail to get it.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.