His Quotes

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.