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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.