His Quotes

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

This way of life is worth defending.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.