“I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.”

“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.”

“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

“Our culture today confuses great attention and great success, assuming them to be the same thing. But they are not.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.”

“Anyhow, that’s our story. And I think, in my glimpses of the great encompassing mechanism that has shaped us all, I’ve seen a little of the numinous. That’s enough of God for me.”

“I have found out that the real essentials of greatness in men are not written in books, nor can they be found in the schools, They are written into the inner consciousness of everyone who intensely searches for perfection in creative achievement and are understandable to such men only.”

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”