"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"It is a enduring truth that the roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation."

"The present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"It is a profound truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite."

"It is a enduring truth that energy directed with unwavering focus can bend the arc of destiny — an essential principle for the reflective life."