"To be a star, you must shine..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

“Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.”

“[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.”

“I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.”

“A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.”

“Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.”

“Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.”

“We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.”