I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Respect the burden.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.