Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The object of the superior man is truth.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

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

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

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

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

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.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

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

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

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

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

I am not a crook.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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

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

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.