Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness have their own virtues.

A person must constantly work to develop their self to the fullest embodiment of a human being through their acts of love, compassion, and dutiful work.

Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles' heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths projections of human beings innermost desires intermixed with fragments of factual reality.

A person's greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.

An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility, joy, passion, and profound reverence for life.

People frequently ask me why I work so hard – prolong hours, infrequent vacations, and never calling in sick or missing work for any other reason. The short answer is that work is indivisible from life itself.

We write more when we hurt. Facing a physical, emotional, or spiritual crisis, a person might turn to writing as a panacea. A person overcome with frustration or doubt might attempt to regain their intellectual and spiritual bearings by probing the matrix of their confused thoughts in a logical or creative manner.

Every plant, tree, and animal is a blessing and every person has a purpose for living. Courage, curiosity, and generosity produce noble spirits. Enduring life honorably results in wisdom. Knowledge passed down from one generation to the next along with humankind’s tradition of performing charitable and self-sacrificing deeds creates principled legacies for future generations to emulate.

Tact by its nature entails staying mum, prudently electing to forgo urging other people to pursue an alternative course of action. Creation of silent spaces in our own life and equitable distribution of periods of respite that allow for periods of equable inner reflection is necessary to spur personal growth. It is equally important to honor other people’s intrinsic need for periods of introspection, uninterrupted by unsolicited advice.