"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."

"A resilient spirit knows that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom."

"It is a subtle truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience."

"It is a steadfast truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign."

"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."

"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics."

"Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage."