After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Morality is contraband in war.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

God created man, but I could do better.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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.

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

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

War settles nothing.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.