His Quotes

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

A director just pushes them a little this way or that way.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.