Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

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