“great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.”

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.”

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”

“Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.”

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”