"The field cannot be well seen from..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.”

“Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.”

“The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.”

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

“Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.”

“Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.”

“Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.”

“I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.”

“My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat.”