It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

Leadership is influence.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.