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

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

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

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

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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

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

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