Wisdom Cookie....on a wet lease for 2006

'What I must do is all that concerns me,
not what the people think.
This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual Life,
may serve for the whole distance between greatness and meanness.
It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know
what is your duty better than you know it.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;
it is easy in solitude to live after our own;
but the great person is one who in the middle of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude'.
- Emerson, Ralph (the similarity with Ralph Lauren ending there).
Perhaps, even I can aspire for such greatness, or then, maybe not.
Wonder how"they" would respond to this, though.