As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

General consultant to mankind.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.