It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.

If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow.

The great “deloading” phase. This is what I’m experiencing this afternoon, and it makes a Tuesday feel like a lazy Sunday morning. This is when the muse is most likely to visit. I need to get back to the slack.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

“Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

“If you are afraid to fail, you will never do the things you are capable of doing.”

I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

If you can’t do great things, do little things with great love. If you can’t do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can’t do them with a little love, do them anyway

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful

I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things

Together we can do great things

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.” 

Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.

It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. His greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.

Great men exist that there may be greater men. 

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.