"It is a radiant truth that a quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"All philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

"It is a quiet truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."