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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

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