"It does not to dwell on dreams..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”

“It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.”

“We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.”

“Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.”

“May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.”

“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.”

“Nor seek, for this is also sooth,To hunger fiercely after truth,Lest all thy toiling only breedsNew dreams, new dreams; there is no truthSaving in thine own heart.”

“I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!”

“People who read are people who dream.”