To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

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.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I do not pilfer victory.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

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.

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.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

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

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don’t do things to shock people. I’m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don’t know how long I’m going to be on this planet. So while I’m here, I might as well make the most of it.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.