Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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

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

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

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