His Quotes

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.