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

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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.