A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

We do not judge the people we love.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

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

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

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

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I look after people.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

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

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

To be social is to be forgiving.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.