"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"All philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."