"It makes a great difference in the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”

“The true ship is the ship builder.”

“All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.”

“Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.”

“Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.”

“There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress”

“Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.”

“One expresses well only the love he does not feel.”

“For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”