Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.