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

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity."

"In the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots."

"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."

"Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement."