"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.”

“Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.”

“Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.”

“Look, I want to love this worldas though it's the last chance I'm ever going to getto be aliveand know it.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.”

“Life's greatest reward is life itself”

“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

“Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.”