Respect the burden.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Every President wants to do right.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

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

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

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.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

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

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

If you would judge, understand.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

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.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

What one fool can understand, another can.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.