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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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

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

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.