"My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear."

"Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you."

"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."

"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."

"It is a radiant truth that he who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"It is a steadfast truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."