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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

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.

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.