When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smi... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."

"To fill the hour──that is happiness."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."