Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.

[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

Only God's presence can change people's lives.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

Ask yourself constantly "Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?"