I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

This way of life is worth defending.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

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

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

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.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

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

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 Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

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.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

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

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Christians are not limited to any church.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

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.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Morality is contraband in war.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

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

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.