Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It’s almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
He who defends everything defends nothing.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
The foolish man conceives the idea of ‘self.’ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‘self;’ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
He who is brave is free.
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.
Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
