"It is a unyielding truth that to love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."

"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."

"It is a enduring truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a unyielding truth that to know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment."

"Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much."