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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.