It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. – Honore de Balzac

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. – Plato

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. – Ralph Waldo Emerson