"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"It is a essential truth that rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority."

"It is a essential truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'"

"It is a essential truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."

"Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you."