"The distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Strive today so that tomorrow may stand upon solid ground. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 86 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 59."

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."

"Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit."