Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Morality is contraband in war.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

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

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

One of the amazing things about ‚Seven Samurai‘ is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you’ve got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Character is power.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.