| Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. |
| Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be lighted. |
| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. |
| Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. |
| The true genius shudders at incompleteness - imperfection - and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said. |
| It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. |
| Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. |
| It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. |
| When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. |
| Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. |
