His Quotes

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.