His Quotes

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.