“Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.”

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;where there is hatred, let me sow love;when there is injury, pardon;where there is doubt, faith;where there is despair, hope;where there is darkness, light;and where there is sadness, joy.Grant that I may not so much seekto be consoled as to console;to be understood, as to understand,to be loved as to love;for it is in giving that we receive,it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,and it is in dying [to ourselves] that we are born to eternal life.”

“Happy love affairs are tedious literature.”

“Winning was never the most important thing to her. It was the only thing.”

“There is no scandal unless you get caught.”

“Democracy is about the majority understanding that minorities have rights too.”

“We are all, at times, in the majority. But we are also all, at times, in the minority.”