Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

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

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

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

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