"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 46 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 69."

"Wisdom principle 86 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 93."

"It is a steadfast truth that when you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality."

"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a steadfast truth that in the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain."

"It is a essential 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."