To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

All men hate the nagging.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

I never make conscious decisions.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

The die is cast.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

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

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

It is always your next move.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

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

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Effective action is always unjust.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.