"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a timeless truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors."

"It is a humble truth that stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity."

"It is a unyielding truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."

"Little things console us because little things afflict us."

"But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience — an essential principle for the reflective life."