I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

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.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

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

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

I don’t care about money.

Example is leadership.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

My future is righteousness.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

I do not pilfer victory.