The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.