…act, but sustaining another human being through disappointment, illness, failure, adolescence and uncertainty demands a different kind of greatness. One belongs to nature; the other belongs to character. One can occur in a single day; the other is achieved through years of steadfast faithfulness. Children understand th…

…and the same uncompromising relationship with preparation that had defined him since adolescence. The surroundings changed. The philosophy did not. There is a temptation, whenever remarkable careers approach their conclusion, to speak only about endings. Yet endings rarely explain extraordinary lives. They merely revea…