"Let there be worse cotton and better..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.”

“Every noble activity makes room for itself.”

“My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.”

“Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?”

“For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.”

“The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.”

“We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character.”