"It is a quiet truth that breathe deeply, anchor your attention in this breath, and let the storm pass — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going."

"Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power."

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

"The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

"The art of living is discovering that character is forged in the fires of discipline."