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

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

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

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

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

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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

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

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