Quotes About Values

Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.

I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

I don't believe in beating people up just for the sake of grabbing a headline.

I don't want to be the person who has the gigantic headlines: 'Look Who So-and-So Is Dating Now.' That, to me, isn't really who I am.

So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.

Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.

I just care about the heart and soul of our country and the direction it's headed in.

When you're at a football club, the heart and soul of it is bigger than a win or a loss, so I'd like to think I leave the football club in a good place.

Believe me, I don't let my kids run wild. They are all such good kids with good hearts. They make me so proud!

I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

What I'm saying is I want to elect people that are God-fearing people, people that will not allow their hearts to get corrupted, by money or by anybody.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

So, the idea of being a star on MTV and all that never really appealed to me. It makes life hectic.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves by their Constitution. That is what creates us. This is our heritage, and you must know our heritage.

We can't bypass our heritage. We can't bypass the knowledge of who we are. You don't take a DNA test to see if you believe in freedom. Freedom is taught, and teaching the Constitution - I won't go on too much.

It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.