I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

The post of honour is a private station.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

I respect Soulja Boy.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.