A man said to the universe:  “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe,  “The fact has not created in me  A sense of obligation.”  ― Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems ...

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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series...

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“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all..”  ― Leo Rosten ...

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“A great man is always willing to be little.”  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

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 A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”  ― Jorge Luis Borges, Twenty-Four Conversations...

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