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

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

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.