Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

I don’t believe in the war god of the Israelites. He’s a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

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

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

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 often look ridiculous in Japan. There’s really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

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

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

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

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.