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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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