Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

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

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

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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