"Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world globes itself in a drop of dew.”

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.”

“I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.”

“If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.”

“The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.”

“A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.”

“There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.”

“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”