"I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power."

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."

"It is a unyielding truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy."

"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."

"Patience is a virtue because the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."