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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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