"Our sadness is not sad, but our..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.”

“Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?”

“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”

“But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.”

“Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.”

“Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous”

“Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.”

“Let your joy be unconfined!”

“And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.”