"Luck marches with those who give their very best."

"If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it."

"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition."

"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech."

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire."

"True innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a timeless truth that stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity."

"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist."