The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. – Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies