Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

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.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

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.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

I do not pilfer victory.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.