"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"To love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a timeless truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling."

"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man."

"I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring."