His Quotes

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.