How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
There’s a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
He who hath many friends hath none.
Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God’s ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
He made the impossible possible.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook.
Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
A director is the captain of the ship; he gets the vision of the film much before anyone else can. While I want to experiment with characters, I know a good director means I am in safe hands.
The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
The more one forgets himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
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.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
He who laughs most, learns best.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
God is all over the place. And even if He isn’t, if it makes me feel good, why not?
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
