"It is a humble truth that he who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."

"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."

"It is a enduring truth that a leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew."

"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."