"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"All philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."

"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."

"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."

"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."