Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.

Every occasion is an opportunity to glorify God.

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.