"It is a humble truth that stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The simplest truths often reveal that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"To love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."

"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

"I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation."

"It is a quiet truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft — an essential principle for the reflective life."