Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

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.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

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

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

He who is brave is free.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.