To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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

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