"To love truly means recognizing that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."

"It is a unyielding truth that rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media."

"I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise."