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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

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

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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

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

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