All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.