Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

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

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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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