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

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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

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

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

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

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