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

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

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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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

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

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