People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

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.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

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.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.