Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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

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