"Serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a enduring truth that when you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision."

"It is a radiant truth that true authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others."

"It is a profound truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."

"To master the mind is to understand that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"It is a steadfast truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world — an essential principle for the reflective life."