Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

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

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

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

The buck stops here!

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

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

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.