His Quotes

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?