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

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

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

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

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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.