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

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

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.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

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.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

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

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.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.