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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.