His Quotes

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.

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.