His Quotes

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

I dote on his very absence.