I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.