Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

And what he greatly thought he nobly dared.

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

I think what motivates people is not great hate but great love for other people.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views not even kindness.

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

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Greatness lies not in being strong but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Great people talk about ideas average people talk about things and small people talk about wine.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be the deeper must be its foundation.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking innovative risk-taking God- loving family-oriented American people.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.