Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau Henry Thoreaus auntHenry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C.S. Lewis

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Bryant H. McGill

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Renee Fleming

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Les Brown

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Golda Meir

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K. Jerome

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran

One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Romain Rolland

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

Chuck Palahniuk

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

Lawrence Tierney

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson