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

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.

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

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

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

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.