Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I give opinions, not advice.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

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

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Debates, I hate.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.