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

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

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

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