Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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

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

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.