"It is a subtle truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."

"The greatest journey starts when the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."

"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."