It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion – it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
... and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power. It is only when we come up against an obstruction that we can see people's strength. Woody Guthrie
