"When purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a radiant truth that when purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone."

"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that a mind at peace can weather any storm."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes."

"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths."