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

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

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

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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

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