A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don’t dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.