"Breathe deeply, anchor your attention in this breath, and let the storm pass. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."

"Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

"Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself."

"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends."