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

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

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

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

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.