"We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap."

"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Strive today so that tomorrow may stand upon solid ground. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."

"At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope."