The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

We all have the duty to do good.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

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

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.