"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

"To conquer fear is to realize that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"It is a essential truth that the roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."