"Faith never makes a confession."

"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

"It is a essential truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance."

"To question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do."

"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."

"Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did."