"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."