Quotes About Respect

Our membership in this Church . . . should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.

Teasing is a disguised form of shaming.

Just because two men live together, it doesn't mean it's depravity.

It may be surprising to hear that parenting should be relatively easy. Getting our child to take our cues, follow directions, or respect our values should not require strain and struggle or coercion, nor even the extra leverage of rewards. If pressure tactics are required, something is amiss. Kirsten's mother and father had come to rely on force because, unawares, they had lost the power to parent.

Children do not automatically grant us the authority to parent them just because we are adults, or just because we love them or think we know what is good for them or have their best interests at heart.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

To walk into an office and have your 'good morning' returned with a grunt and no eye contact is not my idea of a happy house. There is always time to acknowledge that Someone is more important than Something, even if it takes a couple of precious minutes.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"—

I admire and respect those unique and positive individuals who can "age without aging." The number of times a heart beats is not as important as its tempo and rhythm.

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

I see life as a great banquet at which I'm the honored guest, along with my brothers the deer and the bear and the raccoon and the salamander and the eagle and the fly.

The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.

Draft beer, not people.

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.

Pigeons are people too.

Somewhere at a summer conference, I dropped several books casually on the ground and kicked them out of the way. A German student picked up the books, dusted them off gently. He said how he had worked for years to buy a few books. A book was his blood, and he bled when he saw it mishandled.

Nothing is more unfair to an author than to read or "dip into" his book before seeing what he has to say about it in his Preface.

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.

It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's simply a whine, just no more than a whine. "I find that offensive": it has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.

...the tears come, and I cannot brush them away; I would not if I could, for they are the only tribute I can pay...