Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

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

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.