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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

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

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

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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

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