Who Quotes

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.