Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
In the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
If a man loves you… he’s willing to profess it. He’ll give you a title after a while. You’re going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby’s mama, something.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
No man’s credit is as good as his money.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.
Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Beckham? His wife can’t sing and his barber can’t cut hair.
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
It is right to give every man his due.
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn’t.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,’ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‘Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
