"Every man's condition is a solution in..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

“The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.”

“In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.”

“The best guide in life is strength.”

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.”

“Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.”

“Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.”

“The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.”

“The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.”