He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
My dad said to me, ‘Work hard and be patient.’ It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he’s too busy wondering what he’ll do if he isn’t elected.
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Jesus didn’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ He said, ‘Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.’ It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius… For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary.
He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don’t embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
The fighter is born. He cannot be made.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
When ‘Top Gun’ came out, my sisters were like, ‘Oh, my God, ‘Top Gun!’ Tom Cruise!’ And I very confidently said, ‘I’m going to marry him one day.’ It wasn’t like, ‘How do I get to Tom Cruise?’ It was just, ‘I think I’m going to marry him. Why not? He’ll like me. I’m fun.’
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
