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.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

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

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

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

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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

The threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us.

I’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.