I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

We moralize among ruins.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

I love being busy.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

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

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

States are not moral agents.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

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

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

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

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.