Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

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

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

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.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Of two evils, choose neither.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

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

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Every President wants to do right.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

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?

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.