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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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

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