Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

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

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

All great peoples are conservative.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Effective action is always unjust.

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.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.