"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Wisdom principle 3 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 19."

"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."

"It is a unyielding truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A trifle consoles us because a trifle distresses us."