Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

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

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

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