"My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise."

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."

"Experts often possess more data than judgment."

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"It is a profound truth that a quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove — an essential principle for the reflective life."