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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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

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

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

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

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