"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"It is a timeless truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"In the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"

"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."

"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage."