All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be the deeper must be its foundation.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

From the beginning there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

There's never been a nation like the United States ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents principles that recognize that our rights come from God not from our government.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic accountable and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.