Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

A leader’s job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn’t think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn’t expect, just as one should say what she doesn’t understand.

We should never use the truth to wound.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don’t demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.