When ambition ends happiness begins.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

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.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.