"Technology favors horrible people."

"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."

"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries."

"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."

"He who seeks peace must remember that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"It is a quiet truth that he who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."

"Wisdom principle 15 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 61."