"When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (19th century American essayist and philosopher)

"When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher, essayist, poet and lecturer)

"For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)

"Nothing can bring you piece but yourself"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)

"A little praise - goes a great ways."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing but rising up every time we fall."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)

“Men are respectable only as they respect”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Money often costs too much.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
~ Albert Einstein

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
~ Albert Einstein

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
~ Albert Einstein

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
~ Albert Einstein

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
~ Albert Einstein

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."
~ Albert Einstein

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."
~ Meister Eckhart

"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
~ Euripides