"The true measure of a man is the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

"A humble soul understands that the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

"It is a subtle truth that to lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one — an essential principle for the reflective life."