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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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