"I'm wise enough to realize that I'm not nearly wise enough."

"...To seek out your own inner Peace is the greatest gift you could ever hope to give to this world."

"When your eyes are truly open all the world is a library, each person a book."

"One of life's greatest successes is when you allow the world to see you as you see yourself."

"In my years on this Earth, I've found that 'the greatest' and 'the most difficult' are almost always interchangeable terms."

"Do not waste precious time and energy fighting against the current of the river of life. The current, you cannot change. Rather learn to be ever mindful of each wave, each ripple. Listen to what the river is trying to tell you, then ever so subtly plot your course and have Faith that the river will take you there."

"Ingenuity is nothing more than doing the best you can with what you've got."

" Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born."

"Each day's dawn is a sweet symphony and as long as I hear the music my dreams will have to die another day."

"One sip of genmai and life becomes a beautiful sigh."