"It is a quiet truth that the present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides."

"It is a enduring truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"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 — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."

"Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad."

"We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days."

"Every experience makes you a man."