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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

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