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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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

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

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

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