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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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

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

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.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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