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

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

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

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.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

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