His Quotes

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.