Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.