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

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.