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

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

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

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

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

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

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.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

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.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

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.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

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.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

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

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

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.