His Quotes

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.