His Quotes

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.

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.