SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

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

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

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

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

An army marches on its stomach.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

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.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I’m very free-spirited.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

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

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.