If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

Simple men do great things simply because they do not purport to see anything grand in their efforts. They only see the responsibility of living life in keeping with the gift that it is. And that is greatness indeed.

Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.

Great things come in small things, for only small things have enough space to contain them.

When it comes to doing great things, it’s less a matter of vision and more a matter of bravery.

The utterly frightening thing about great things is that we don’t know where they’re taking us, we can’t control them, and we’ll never be able to return to what we left. And are those things not the things that make great things great?

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

True greatness rests in seeing life as a gift and then treating it that way. And if a person can do both of those, then they are truly great. If they cannot, then to think that they are great is to be greatly mistaken.

It is true that when we seek great things we most often never find them, for we have created a sense of what great things look like, what the nature of them is, and in what manner they should arrive. And what we discover is that we are typically wrong on all accounts.