Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

We are all special cases.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Ethics and power are separate.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

I respect Soulja Boy.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

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

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

I’m not a sheep.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

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

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.