"Bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea."

"It is a profound truth that bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts."

"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history."

"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."

"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."