Ralph Waldo Emerson, yet again.

Oh, This is why I love him- what an incredible mind!
Whoso would ever be a man, must be a nonconformist

-To believe in your own thought, to believe what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men- that is genius.

-Nature arms each man with some faculty that enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

-Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

-In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

-The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

-Nothing great was every achieved without enthusiasm.