His Quotes

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.