His Quotes

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.