Who Quotes

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

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.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.