His Quotes

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.