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

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

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

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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

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