"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."

"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command."

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."

"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air."

"The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again."

"It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."

"But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV."

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."