His Quotes

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.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

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.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.