His Quotes

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

A man's kiss is his signature.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.