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

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

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

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.