Self-reliance is the highest expression of self-respect.

A great person or thing does not gain even a fraction of a single degree of greatness, when complimented; or lose it, when not complimented.

Talent is often suffocated by the desire to be deemed talented.

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

Greatness amazes only people who are not great.

Greatness is always a byproduct of an obsession.

Make no mistake, no one has ever become great by mistake.

A genius is produced not by a woman’s womb but by a man’s efforts.

The vast majority of people are each the greatest only at being them.