There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

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

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.