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

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

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

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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

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.

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 great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.