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

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

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

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

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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

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

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

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

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