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

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

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

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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

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

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

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.