"What a new face courage puts on..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought”

“Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?”

“The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.”

“We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.”

“My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.”

“The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?”

“A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.”