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I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

There are two types of men: the great and the small.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

We grow small trying to be great.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.