Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
Anna Freud

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
Xi Zhi

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie Ten Boom

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
Morgan Freeman

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.
Morgan Freeman

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry A. Kissinger

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris

Small things amuse small minds.
Doris Lessing

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney J. Harris

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
Alicia Keys

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de Balzac

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Daniel Boone

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.