His Quotes

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

The fact that 'True Blood' affects people in this way is incredible to me - the fact we have to go to such great lengths to hide storylines just proves the cache our show has.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.