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

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

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

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

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.