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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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

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

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

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

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