On a calm sea

But all sunshine without shadow, all pleasure without pain, is no life at all. Take the happiest lot -- it's tangled yarn. Bereavement and blessing, one by one, let us take turns to grieve and bless. Even death itself makes life more loving. A man is closest to his true self when he is awake. Moments of life, under the shadow of regret and loss.

In the affairs of life or business, it is not intellect but character, not mind but heart, not genius, but self-control, patience and discipline, bound by judgment.

I've always believed in someone who has started to live more seriously. Start living more simply. In an age of excess. And waste. I hope I can show the world how little humanity really needs.

To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble about being superior to others. The true nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Moonlight starlight, shallow streams flowing slowly.

The breeze kisses my face, the leaves flutter.