The Fox Knows Many Things But The Hedgehog Knows One Big Thing

The signature of the truly great versus the merely successful is not the absence of difficulty, but the ability to come back from setbacks.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.