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

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

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

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

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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

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

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

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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