Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

To be is to do.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Children are all foreigners.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.