His Quotes

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

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?