I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

I love trying new things.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Justice is truth in action.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

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

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.

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.

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

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

We all have done something unethical.

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

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

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.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.