His Quotes

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.