His Quotes

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

The fact that 'True Blood' affects people in this way is incredible to me - the fact we have to go to such great lengths to hide storylines just proves the cache our show has.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.