"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”

“Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.”

“Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.”

“I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.”

“You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.”

“All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.”

“To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.”

“There is only one question: / how to love this world.”

“Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.”