"The voyage of the best ship is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.”

“A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.”

“There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.”

“You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.”

“There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.”

“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.”

“Truth crushed to earth will rise again.”

“Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams”

“And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.”