"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

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

"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

"Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice."

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were."