His Quotes

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.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.