His Quotes

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.