Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I do not pilfer victory.

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

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

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.