Quotes about Behavior

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

I represented Wall Street, as a senator from New York, and I went to Wall Street in December of 2007 - before the big crash that we had - I basically said, 'Cut it out! Quit foreclosing on homes! Quit engaging in these kinds of speculative behaviors.'

Civilization depends on morality.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

We must teach the new disciples to also do what Jesus commanded the twelve and the seventy to do when they were commissioned. Discipleship in the first century was not merely learning the teachings of the master discipler, but also learning to model their lives on his life, believing like he did, behaving like he did, and doing what he did.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...

I believe that over 90 percent of LU students try hard to comply with the behavioral code and are supportive of the school's mission.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.