Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

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.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Time stays, we go.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Ethics and power are separate.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

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

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.