Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism in a politics of hope?

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Who would have thought that online medical treatment would be widespread to this extent by now? 

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Weak leaders use others to defend them. The strong fight their own battles.

The reins of the world are slipping into the hands of delinquents.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.