"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"It is a subtle truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

"When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure."