What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

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

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

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

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

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

We moralize among ruins.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

Compliment three people every day.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things – such as traditional marriage – that, I think, express a community’s concern and regard for a particular institution.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Integrity has no need of rules.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.