“There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.”

“There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

“Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.”

“The people who say you are not facing realityactually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality.Reality is above all else a variable.With a firm enough commitment,you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.”

“Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to see mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.”

“The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.”