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

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.