His Quotes

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.