"It is a radiant truth that a quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out."

"It is a steadfast truth that courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose."

"Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm."