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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

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

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

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

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That’s what I hate most. I think it’s very demode.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

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

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

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