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

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

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

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

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

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.