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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.