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.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

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

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

The human heart is the same the world over.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

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.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

The post of honour is a private station.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.