"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Energy directed with unwavering focus can bend the arc of destiny. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

"It is a timeless truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition."

"All truth is not to be told at all times."

"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot."