"Wisdom principle 1 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 16."

"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Wisdom principle 30 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 77."

"My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay."

"Wisdom principle 40 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 15."

"Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?"