"It is a profound truth that a visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence."

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."

"It is a unyielding truth that great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers."