Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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

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

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