“Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.”

“... he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing — or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need, but don't and can't get anyway.”

“Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.”

“You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

“What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”