"It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."

"To lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"It is a essential truth that stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True wisdom begins when you realize every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."

"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."

"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."