Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The only shame is to have none.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

I only act from my heart.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.