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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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