One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

Order is heaven’s first law.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Integrity has no need of rules.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I have spent every New Year’s Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It’s a place with meaning for me.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

All great peoples are conservative.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.