"It is a quiet truth that serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."

"Breathe deeply, anchor your attention in this breath, and let the storm pass. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard."

"There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best."

"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."

"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."