"Wherever there is a channel for water,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.”

“It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.”

“The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To live like a philosopher is to live, not foolishly, like other men, but wisely and according to universal laws.”

“Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.”

“Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.”

“It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.”

“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

“Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.”