I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

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

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

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

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.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

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.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

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