Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means – one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

I teach that all men are mad.