"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."

"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries."

"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."

"Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long."

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

"It is a humble truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts."

"If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants."