“It was this little troublemaker named Ralph Waldo Duffy. Ralph Waldo is the one who really ruined the pageant. He picked up the baby Jesus by the feet, and your mother stood up in front of God and everybody and yelled, 'Joseph, put Jesus down before I smack you.' Even then she had the makings of a good mother.”
“He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]”
“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
“Every Hero Becomes a Bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson”