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

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

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

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

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.