"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"It is a radiant truth that the seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching."

"There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive."

"It is a profound truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea."

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."