"The man who goes alone can start..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”

“I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves”

“What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”

“Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!”

“Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.”

“There will never be another now -I'll make the most of today.There will never be another me -I'll make the most of myself.”

“Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!”

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“Many times we ask people to march outwardly, when we haven't yet spent the needed time inwardly.”