"To conquer fear is to realize that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a essential truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold."

"The only limit to human potential is the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety."

"In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."