People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.