If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.