I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

No human being is perfect. In our individual and collective lives every expression of greatness is followed, not by a period symbolizing completeness, but by a comma implying partialness. Following every affirmation of greatness is the conjunction "but." Naaman "was a great man," says the Old Testament, "but . . ."-that "but" reveals something tragic and disturbing-"but he was a leper.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

The price of greatness is responsibility.