Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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

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

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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