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

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

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

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

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.