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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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

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

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

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

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