“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”

“The tragedy of life is not so much whatmen suffer, but rather what they miss.”

“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!”

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”

“History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.”

“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”