His Quotes

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.