"Truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

-- Mark Twain

"The greatest things which are done on earth are done within."

-- St. Louis de Montfort

"The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men."

-- A.W. Hare

"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."

-- Hegel

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity."

-- Tolstoy

"It is gratefulness which makes the soul great."

-- Abraham Herschel