"A resilient spirit knows that the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new."

"Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Time is the only critic without ambition."