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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.