"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."

"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

"My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle."

"My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world."

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."