A leader’s job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them....

If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make...

My art hid the fact that it was art, it was so real.