Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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

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