"Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not."

"I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in."

"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together."

"I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it."

"But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."