“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
“But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.”
“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”
“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”
“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.”