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

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

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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

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