A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman… I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
I don’t want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don’t just want to be, ‘He dresses cool’ or ‘He dresses crazy.’ You’re going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
The president can’t change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
He is one of the finest and kindest human beings I have come across. When you meet him, you will understand why he is the Jackie Chan. It’s not just for his work but also the kind of person he is.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.
I’ve got the brain of a four year old. I’ll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
