His Quotes

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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.