"It is a humble truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that a life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that to live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest."

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the pursuit of truth is a lifelong endeavor."