"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"Men are only as great as they are kind"

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"