"I hate the giving of the hand..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

“Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?”

“I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.”

“Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.”

“Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.”

“If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.”

“Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.”

“There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.”