The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I only want my work to make people happy.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Honesty is the best policy.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

An honest man is always a child.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.