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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.