"The first thing a great person does..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”

“There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.”

“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.”

“I'm not jumping through the gym by any means. But I don't need to be able to do that in order to be a great player.”

“Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.”

“I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.”

“I feel like I inspire more people than I think I do. I just need to remember that.”

“You could penetrate anybody if you consistently put out love. Some people can't handle it.”

“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”