There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

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

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

He who angers you conquers you.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

By that sin fell the angels.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Only you can control your future.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.