Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

The object of the superior man is truth.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

I can be a cruel person.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.