"True innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"He who seeks peace must remember that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"To love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"The roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"It is a radiant truth that an idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism."

"Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad."

"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."

"Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective."