Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always do what you are afraid to do.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.