Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

The quality of your work in the long run is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say 'I'm a feminist. '

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

As an instrument for practical action law is responsive to the wisdom of its time which may be wrong but it carries forward sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion a memory of received values.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful to begin to love yourself value yourself. And that's political in its most profound way.

Don't let your special character and values the secret that you know and no one else does the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community especially if our personal identity is denied.

More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country fight for the values that he cares about.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

A wise man will make haste to forgive because he knows the true value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.