I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I respect Soulja Boy.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

It is right to give every man his due.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.