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

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

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

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

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.