"Every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that the test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a essential truth that to live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it."

"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."

"I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me."

"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."

"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."