My principles are more important than the money or my title.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

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

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Money ain’t everything.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

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.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

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

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

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.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.