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

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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

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

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

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.