"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"We do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"It is a humble truth that he who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

"It is a quiet truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel — an essential principle for the reflective life."