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

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

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