Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.