"The purpose of life is not to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.”

“Beauty without expression is boring.”

“The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.”

“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”

“On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men.”

“The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.”

“Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.”

“Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.”

“Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.”