Integrity has no need of rules.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

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.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Of two evils, choose neither.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

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

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

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

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

The object of the superior man is truth.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.