"I read your piece on Plato. Holmes,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.”

“Stand guard at the portal of your mind.”

“Build therefore your own world.”

“The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.”

“The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.”

“Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.”

“For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.”

“I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.”

“Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.”