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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

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

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.

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