"Patience is a virtue because the silence between the notes creates the music."

"It is a quiet truth that the roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived."

"It is a enduring truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."

"The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians."

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."