My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic,...
Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.
It is possible that people who share core values will make choices along the same lines.
I am running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada because I see these opportunities for future generations falling away and I see our values being undermined - even within our own...
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
The tulip is among flowers what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb the other in its tail.
I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation.
Eternal values are much more everlasting than the temporary physical material things.
Our true worth lies in our character, not in our accomplishments
Everyone has a price, as they say. So let the price on your tag say PRICELESS INVALUABLE IRREPLACEABLE.
The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be...
A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and...
I do not have silver nor gold to give you, but I have a heart of gold to keep you.
Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes...
Leadership is about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity
What counts that we're not counting?
Commitment is another name for relationship not the compromise.
If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors
It is better to be redeemed than to be rich.
Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...