It is a good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

If man fails to reorientate his life around moral and ethical values he may well destroy himself by the misuse of his own instrument.

One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

And there is deep down within all of us an instinct. It's a kind of drum major instinct - a desire to be out front, a desire to lead the parade, a desire to be first. And it is something that runs the whole gamut of life.