The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
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.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.
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.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
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?
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Man is a child of his environment.
Every man is his own hell.
A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
Is not the brand of ‘double-dealer’ stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name?
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter’s identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
