A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say: ‘Enough is enough.’
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 don’t excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
He conquers who endures.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
A humorist has to be taken seriously before he’s considered a real writer.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
A lot of y’all are lonely and y’all lonely because you’re overlooking a good man. Why? Because y’all wanna be with the hardcore thug. The man that is pretending to be everything that he isn’t.
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
