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.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

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.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

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.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

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

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things – such as traditional marriage – that, I think, express a community’s concern and regard for a particular institution.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

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.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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 liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Money can’t buy life.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

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

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

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

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

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