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

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

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

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

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

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

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