I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

This way of life is worth defending.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

When you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

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.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

The object of the superior man is truth.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Money can’t buy life.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.