His Quotes

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.