Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

When you sing with a group of people you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy the great social virtue.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city or a new love affair.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again from zero.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful it does a great deal of harm.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers scientists doctors lawyers and skilled professionals.