His Quotes

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.