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

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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

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

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

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

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.