"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 29 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 53."

"Wisdom principle 19 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 47."

"It is a essential truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."

"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."

"I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind."