A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

A precedent embalms a principle.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

One of the things that I’m very excited about with New Shepard, which is our suborbital tourism vehicle, is using that to get a lot of practice. One of the equilibria that we’re at today with space launch is that we don’t get to practice enough.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

No driver is perfect.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I’m not perfect.