A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I’m very free-spirited.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Character is destiny.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.