Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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