I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

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.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I’d be very happy. It’s not my favorite thing to do.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.