"Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.”

“Rude poets of the tavern hearth,squandering your unquoted mirth,which keeps the ground, and never soars,while jake retorts, and reuben roars;tough and screaming, as birch-bark,goes like bullet to its mark;while the solid curse and jeernever balk the waiting ear.”

“Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”

“Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.”

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

“I have travelled a good deal in Concord.”

“Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.”

“There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.”