When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

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

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

I like to work.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

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.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

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.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

It is right to give every man his due.

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.

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.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.