"It is a quiet truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that when you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality."

"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder."

"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them."

"Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor."

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."