“You nominate yourself to be the one who will courageously do what you think ought to be done, even if everyone is pressing you to do something else.”

“You do it to yourself, you do,
And that's why it really hurts,
Is you do it to yourself, just you,
You and no-one else,
You do it to yourself.”

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

“If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.”

“I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.”

“… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.”

“You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.”

“Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?”

“Push yourself beyond when you think you are done with what you have to say. […] It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.”

“If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.”