A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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

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

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

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.