His Quotes

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.