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

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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