His Quotes

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.