We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

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

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited… The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

To be is to do.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

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

There is nothing so stable as change.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.