Quotes About Values

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.

Everything I do in business - and in the kitchen, period, I believe - goes from 1940 to 1978. It's the right way. It's the old way.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

There's often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul.

The kneeling and everything, I think it really only sort of solidifies who I am as a person and the things that I stand for.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

Where I grew up if I swore my dad would knock it out of me. You just never swore.

It is evident that the fanatical interpretation of the Koran is incompatible with our values of freedom and with Christian values.

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

After everything my parents were teaching us about Korean culture, about being respectful and all these things, you know, here came my grandmother, who is very crass and wanted to teach us how to gamble.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

What did it mean to be a Jewish woman, and how did that differ from being a white or mainstream one? Why were middle-class Jews Democrats, and some of our equally middle-class Protestant neighbors Republican?

Maybe if we focused less on what we do and more on who — and whose — we are, we can find that super mom status we are really longing for.

Just because a person has money in his pocket it doesn't mean he has kindness in his heart.

It is not accidental that a conflict that starts with our relation to others in time affects the whole personality. Human relationships are so crucial that they are bound to mold the qualities we develop, the goals we set for ourselves, the values we believe in. All these in turn react upon our relations with others and so are inextricably interwoven.

Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world relevance to them.

It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

What we achieve at our best moment doesn't say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.

You choose what you can live with and what you can't live without.

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war.