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

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

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

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

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

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

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

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