Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

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

Sin is geographical.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

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.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

I do not pilfer victory.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.