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

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

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

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

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

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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