"Don't choose the better person, choose the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.”

“I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”

“If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”

“I tend to think things are love and then look back and reevaluate.”

“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.”

“They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.”

“It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.”

“Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.”

“If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.”