Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.