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

"Wisdom principle 45 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 90."

"It is a profound truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments."

"When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

"It is a steadfast truth that love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude — an essential principle for the reflective life."