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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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