"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

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

"It is a unyielding truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson."

"It is a unyielding truth that life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause."

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."

"Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."