Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I love being in a courtroom.

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.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

We all have the duty to do good.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I do not pilfer victory.

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

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.