I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

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

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

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.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

In the real world, children love me.

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

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

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

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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

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.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

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

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.