"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."

"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."

"Wisdom principle 86 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 4."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."