"Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you."

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

"When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves."

"I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

"I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky."

"It is a timeless truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold."