As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

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.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

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.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.