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.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

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

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.