There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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

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