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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

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

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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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

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

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