Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

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

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

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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