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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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