"No great man ever complains of want..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.”

“Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.”

“Thoughts rule the world.”

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

“Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.”

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”

“I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.”

“when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.”

“There's no way you can look into the game oflife and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whetherit will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!”