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.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

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

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

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

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