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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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

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