Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

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

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

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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