Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

The die is cast.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

I think I’ve got wiser.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.