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

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

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

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

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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.