Greatness Quotes

Like all great stories it started with a kiss and ended with a long and slow goodbye that went silent – in the end.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Great businesses come from great leadership, great leadership comes from great flexibility and great flexibility comes from great control. great control will give you a great life. 

Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

I don’t have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.

If you want to start something great, you need commitment. But if you want to finish that something great, you need consistency.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

I can’t tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that’s what I call a vacation.