In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.