"Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week."

"Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour."

"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."

"But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time."

"It is a timeless truth that a heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 75 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 90."