How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.