"To know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom."

"It is a quiet truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul."

"The foundation of joy is the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful."

"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."