The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

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.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn'tactually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in yourmind?

When you feel like things are out of control, you take control.Yeah, that's what you do. Take control.So, yeah.Oh, yeah.

A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)