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

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

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

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

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

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