"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign — an essential principle for the reflective life."