Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
