"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder."

"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."

"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

"Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish"

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."

"It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning."

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

"My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?"

"I have a great memory."

"It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run."

"I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax."

"My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too."

"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."

"One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life."

"Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon."

"American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik."

A great discovery does not issue from a scientists brain ready-made, like Minerva springing fully armed from Jupiter’s head; it is the fruit of an accumulation of preliminary work. 

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Great creative work isn’t possible if you’re trying to piece together 30 minutes here and 45 minutes there.