His Quotes

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

As Attorneys General, we have been on the front line defending the Constitution - and the American people - from a President driven to exercise government power over our freedoms, our rights, and our lives. We know that the Constitution limits federal power, but President Obama clearly believes those limits just get in his way.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.