"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the true master is an eternal student."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation."

"Biography lends to death a new terror."

"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."