"It is a enduring truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."

"In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature."

"We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans."

"It is a profound truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."