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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.