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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.