His Quotes

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

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.