Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Live, let live, and help live

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or you will fall for anything.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

I do not like to be unkind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Life on the road is murder. It’s as though life begins and ends with your horn in your mouth.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars.