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. Mark Twain
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. Ben Affleck
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. Gertrude Stein
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Albert Einstein
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. Harriet Beecher Stowe