"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that the true master is an eternal student."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

"I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the only true currency in life is time well spent."