“The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.”

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

I believe that when people say something is impossible, it’s only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.

So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.