"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

"We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are."

"Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that."

"It is a unyielding truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"A resilient spirit knows that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."