"Be not afraid of greatness...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.”

“No man's pie is freedFrom his ambitious finger.”

“An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.”

“There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.”

“So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.”

“No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .”

“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.”

“I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.”

“History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.”