His Quotes

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.