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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

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