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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

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

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

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.