His Quotes

We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

A man's character is his fate.

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

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.