We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

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

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.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

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

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.