Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

If you give, you will be blessed.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Be the chief but never the lord.

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.