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

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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.

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.

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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.