"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"It is a steadfast truth that the ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat."

"It is a humble truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."

"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."

"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning."