All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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