"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that in the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 99 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 73."

"Wisdom principle 89 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 67."

"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

"The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff."

"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."