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

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

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

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.