In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn’t very good-looking. But in his own way he’d always save the day.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

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

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Honesty is the best policy.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

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.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.