His Quotes

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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.