The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Integrity has no need of rules.

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

This way of life is worth defending.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

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.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

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

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

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

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

From caring comes courage.

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

Modesty is the color of virtue.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

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.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

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.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

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

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.